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Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited de Lasse R. Gammelgaard

Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Editat de Lasse R. Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Dr. James Phelan, Richard Walsh, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2022
Taking its cues from Richard Walsh’s influential 2007 book, The Rhetoric of Fictionality, Fictionality and Literature sets out to examine the implications of a rhetorical understanding of fictionality. A rhetorical approach understands fictionality and nonfictionality not as binary opposites but as different means to the same end: influencing an audience’s understanding of the world. Arguing that fiction is not just a feature of particular works, such as novels, but an adaptable instrument used to achieve an author’s specific rhetorical goals, the contributors theorize how to reconceive of core literary features and influences such as author, narrator, plot, character, consciousness, metaphor, metafiction/metalepsis, intertextuality, paratext, ethics, and social justice. Combining analyses of a wide range of texts by Colson Whitehead, Charles Dickens, Kazuo Ishiguro, Toni Morrison, Geoffrey Chaucer, and others with historical events such as the Nat Tate biography hoax and the Anders Breivik murders, contributors discuss not only a rhetorical definition of fictionality but also the wider consequences of such a conception. In addition, some chapters within Fictionality and Literature offer alternatives to a rhetorical paradigm, thus expanding the volume’s representation of the current state of the conversation about fictionality in literature. Contributors: H. Porter Abbott, Catherine Gallagher, Lasse R. Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Rikke Andersen Kraglund, Susan S. Lanser, Jakob Lothe, Maria Ma¨kela¨, Greta Olson, Sylvie Patron, James Phelan, Richard Walsh, Wendy Veronica Xin, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen  
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814215012
ISBN-10: 0814215017
Pagini: 338
Ilustrații: 8 b&w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Recenzii

“Helpful and informative for readers, writers, and critics … Fictionality and Literature is a complete compendium of knowledge, a collection of essays that only propels rhetorical fictionality theory into the future of both analytical and creative composition. The next time I sit down to write fiction, I’ll keep this volume in mind—I won’t be able to help it.” —Alex Crayon, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association

“Fictionality and Literature provides a clear window into one of the most interesting and provocative new approaches to narrative––the rhetoric of fictionality. Enhanced by a diversity of theoretical approaches, this collection will have a broad and profound impact on narrative research.” —Brian McHale, author of The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems

Notă biografică

Lasse R. Gammelgaard is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. Stefan Iversen is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. Louise Brix Jacobsen is Associate Professor in Danish Media Studies at Aalborg University. James Phelan is Distinguished University Professor of English at The Ohio State University and author of numerous books, including (with Matthew Clark) Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative and Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx. Richard Walsh is Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, and author of The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction. Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen is Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University.

Extras

In 2007 Richard Walsh planted the seeds for this book in his The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction. Walsh opens up a new approach to “the idea of fiction” by rejecting the dominant treatment of the concept in opposition to the presumption of truth in nonfiction. According to this established consensus, nonfictionality entails a commitment to reference and truth, whereas fictionality entails the absence of (real-world) reference and the rejection of truth commitments. Walsh shows how the opposition works within prominent accounts of fictionality in fictional worlds theory and speech act theory. Fictional worlds theorists operate with an ontological binary between the actual world referred to in nonfiction and the alternate, fictional worlds constructed by fictionality. Speech act theorists contrast the serious illocutionary acts of nonfictive discourse with the nonserious or pretended illocutionary acts of fictive discourse. Walsh proposes to replace these views with an approach grounded in relevance theory, in which fictionality is not the negation of the communicative commitments involved in nonfiction, but a complementary mode of serious (not pretended) communication. More specifically, Walsh argues that fictionality is best conceived as a rhetorical resource appropriate to a wide range of communicative contexts (Walsh’s proposals are elaborated further below; part 2 of the introduction offers a more detailed account of how they contrast with previous approaches to fictionality). Since 2007 a good number of narrative theorists, including the coeditors of this book, have engaged with Walsh’s work in a variety of ways: Some have sought to extend and refine it, others to revise it, and still others to push back against it. The efforts in the rhetorical vein, whether directed toward extension or revision, have followed two main paths: Some theorists have explored the consequences of a rhetorical view of fictionality in relation to one or more aspects of literary communication (Phelan, “Local Fictionality” and “Narrative Fiction”; Zetterberg Gjerlevsen; Gammelgaard, “Fictionality and Ethics” and “Chaos Narrative”), while others have investigated those consequences in relation to one or more nonliterary kinds of discourse (Hatavara and Mildorf; Grumsen and Jacobsen; Iversen, “Just Because” and “Nimble Navigation”; Iversen and Nielsen, “Invention” and “Politics”; Jacobsen; Nielsen and Phelan). These investigations of a rhetoric of fictionality in various cases from inside and outside the generic conception of fiction have prompted suggestions for refining and revising the theory. While all the work on fictionality as rhetoric stems from Walsh’s original proposal, variations of the theory as well as contesting definitions have been proposed.

This introduction sketches out both the agreements and the disagreements current within the field of rhetorical fictionality theory. The various authors contributing to the book have been given free rein to work with the idea of a rhetoric of fictionality in whichever direction was most useful for the discussion of their particular concept or literary term. We believe the time is ripe for a focused, collaborative assessment of what the varieties of rhetorical theorizing about fictionality can do for our understanding of literature. This volume offers such an assessment by examining how such theorizing leads to new or revised ideas about core concepts in literary theory such as author, narrator, plot, and so on. In addition, it includes the views of some contributors who offer alternatives to a rhetorical paradigm, thus expanding the volume’s representation of the current state of the conversation about fictionality in literature.

Cuprins

Introduction Chapter 1 Author Chapter 2 Narrator Chapter 3 Plot Chapter 4 Character Chapter 5 Consciousness Chapter 6 Metaphor Chapter 7 Paratext Chapter 8 Intertextuality Chapter 9 Metafiction and Metalepsis Chapter 10 The Novel Chapter 11 Poetry Chapter 12 Literary Nonfiction Chapter 13 Ethics Chapter 14 Social Justice

Descriere

Employs a rhetorical definition of fictionality to reconceive of basic literary concepts such as author, narrator, plot, character, consciousness, tropes, intertextuality, and paratext.